Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-11-18
Especial Correspondence.1

erin NEW carpet fer our best room. Thar
had been n purity rag carpet thar ever
sence l could reecolect but mother had
sold butter, and aigs, and chickens, and
garden truck that summer tell she had a
stockin heel full Of money, and she was
bound to fix up her best room bettern
emmy of the nabors on her own hook
Well, Mr.. Editor, when they tuck that
carpet often the Wagon, and brung it in
and unroaled it on the floar, and
! stood by and looked at its
Dig red flowers on a blue ground
with green vines train between, !
Thought had never saw ennything half
80 purity IN all my born days; and when
mother said it was Brussels carpet 1
wondered and wondered what kind Of a
man Mr.. Brussels must be to make setch
nice carpets. WhcnI got little older l
found out Brussels was big city away
Off some Hhar, l didn't kno just whar;
and later on, with yers como Biography
and knoilidgc, but in the keers of state
and Tatrimony, and so foarth, had for
got all about my mothers fuSt Brussels
carpet, tell the day we landed here, and
hen ali come back and thar wascnt u OBJ
.eck Of attrecktion in the whole town hat
20 me what that memery was, and I'de
euther saw width of that carpet with
my mother holdln up one end Of it and
smilin all over like she did that evenin,
han to have saw all the tapestry, and
relvet, and paintins and gold and jewels
III Belgium and oaned them besides.
In acordants with my plan TO visit all
he capitals of Europ rs fer as possible,
:ome to this place after comrletin my
Investigations in the land Of gin mills and
wind mills, and here let me remark that
he only place whar hav saw reel Gin
line case Of American drunk was in Hol-
Band. The sufferer YVES Con EoEle be-
tween two pardncrs, both of them about
aaf az drunk as he was, and lie was that
timber in the jints thut he Ic!l in Oh him
elf about EVERY other step, and then he
would brace up and yell about once on
'he rebound and collapse hgin, and fall
forrerd fer oil the world like we do--no, l
neen they do in Amerky. 1t purity necr
s-.de inc homesick to see stitch familiar
site, bat thee party soon got around the
corner and 1 recovered my wonted sper-
rits.
Belgium ia another ono Of them little
whcelbarrer lode stiie Of kingdoms, but its
capital is one of the finest citys we have
got Into, and its pa,lis Of Just's comes
ncerder to lrolin like the Capitol at
Washington than emmy bi!din we have
saw in Europ. Its own capitol hilain
Gint nowhere like as f'ue rs its PHliis at
Juetis, but 1t e;nt 70 e.orch ca the out
side, and inside it is nGed CT the record.
The biidin Is q plain siuckO, with fiat
roof, four storys high and got a front Ike
a three sided Eoller squar. with n portico
entrcnce on the shut sid, and looks Il
good deal like Duche pallis. Inside,
everything is nifty conveenycnt fer the
self sacriiissin patriots that legiSlates
thar, and serves as u cooShau between the
tierants heel and the nok of the people.
Thar8 sites of purity picters on the wauls
Of comitty rooms. high prised carpets and
furnytoor md fine marbel mantels with
stitch other ellerSent and refnin assosia-
tons as salleried patriotism is abel to
throw about itself and was pleased to OBJ
serve that these Belgium legislators was
not ncglecten Their oppcrtunirys IN this
regard
In the hall Of deputys (congrcss) / was
panied to notice that thar hadcn't been
enough of the public money spent and
the place looked kinder dizmal and slited
like a pore orfan. 1t was done In plane
white, cceln and walls, with ordinary
lether cheers, and looked more like u state
legislators place of asscmblin than any
thing else. 1t got its lite from a round
windcr in the roof and was about as fer
ahel Of the English house of commons rs
our oan hall is ahed of it, The hall of
the seunit, though, ketchcd me. ! wasent
expcctin ennything mulch, and when |
went in thar the ellerccrce Of the place
struck me so hard that spontaneously
bust forth with the cry, "Rctrcnchmcnt
and reform" so we'll known in Our own
land of freedom, but not on account of
ipc in, ~,ol- IN hn
inside OF our legislator halls buty to the
eye.
Well Mr. Editor, that sonnet chamber
was q parrylizer. All the wood in site is
rosewood, polished and carved and
twisted, and thar's lots Of it, High Up
and low down, presidents desk, gallery
fronts, pillars, posts, dores and the whole
end Of the chamber is one mass Of rose
wood, with setch q shiue on to II
that you feel like you was dropped
into n bari of ripe red wine and
the sun was shinin on you through n
bubble layer Of earncts ard rubies. Then
thar is mosaics on gildcd back grounds,
statutes and colyums aud harCins of
velvet ard tapestry, tell it sea-led to me
to be senator was CRATER than king.
The desks had patient arrangement, too,
by which the top Was made to como up
about II foot er so, 10 make kind Of q
pulpit fer senator when he got up to
make speech. ThGra no use talkin Mr..
Editor, them kind oil things has thcr
effect, and CT we had somCthin like it in
Amcriky every congressman would put
on clean shirt and black his boots EVERY
rlornin, ride to the Capitol IN n carriGge,
stop srittin terbacker ep!t on the fore,
ana il q grGto mcnny other little ways
Git to he n more SDrucod NJ Stile OF q man